About the Authors

Enric Vidal

Contributed equally to this work with: Enric Vidal, Natalia Fernández-Borges

Affiliation IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Natalia Fernández-Borges

Contributed equally to this work with: Enric Vidal, Natalia Fernández-Borges

Affiliation CIC bioGUNE, Parque tecnológico de Bizkaia, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain

Belén Pintado

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Campus de Cantoblanco, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Hasier Eraña

Affiliation CIC bioGUNE, Parque tecnológico de Bizkaia, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain

Montserrat Ordóñez

Affiliation IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Mercedes Márquez

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary faculty, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Francesca Chianini

Affiliation Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, Penicuik, Near Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Dolors Fondevila

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary faculty, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Manuel A. Sánchez-Martín

Affiliation Unidad de Generación de OMGs, S.E.A. Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Olivier Andreoletti

Affiliation Ecole Nationale du Veterinaire, Service de Pathologie du Bétail, Toulouse, France

Mark P. Dagleish

Affiliation Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, Penicuik, Near Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Martí Pumarola

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary faculty, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Joaquín Castilla

castilla@joaquincastilla.com

Affiliations CIC bioGUNE, Parque tecnológico de Bizkaia, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EV NFB JC. Performed the experiments: EV NFB BP HE MO MM FC DF MASM OA MPD MP JC. Analyzed the data: EV NFB HE MO MM DF MP JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EV NFB BP HE MO MM FC DF MASM OA MPD MP JC. Wrote the paper: EV NFB FC MPD JC.